I on'y meant fur to snam (rob) him, and on'y giv' him a tightener, when somethin' come dancing and shreeking down the road, and I vamoosed.
In the fullness of time, the love which existed between them had been spoken and acknowledged, and they were now a couple, with all the delights and the responsibilities which coupling provides and demands; but somehow, nobody had noticed.
More than one formal solution was offered; the one which is easiest to work with (all of the solutions are provably equivalent) is the method of Dedekind cuts.
“[…]Ostro unafraidly sought to find new impulses until so hastily and tragically his life was taken”.